The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-11-04


been.
On this there were also two pictures
One of pretty, quiet wedding scene. The
other of man telling his wife to the floor
with an empty bottle which he held in his
/ hand
The pictures were studied by a curious
crowd, before they could be submitted to
the same fate that had befallen the others,
and Mr.. Lindell offered handsome re-
ward to aay one who would discover the
one who had painted them Silly Jim was
| put into the front room to sleep, in the
hope that he might be able to catch the
artist should he attempt to again 'dis-
grace that glittering sign, and could give
warning so that he might be caught and
dealt with as he deserved.
But he proved very poor Waterman,
for during the second night of his occu-
pancy Of the front room, another strip of
cloth was tackled securely in place. 1t con-
tanned very good portrait of Mr.. Lindell's
second son, as he had looked when bright
of him as a young man drinking in his
fathers saloon; and still another, as he
had looked but a few days before when
suffering with an attack of delirium ire
ments.
Mr.. Lindell's sign board was comment
ed on everywhere. Small boys made any
amount of fun of it. The newspaper no
longer spoke of it with the degree of re-
spect that it had but short time before.
Men who claimed to be temperance and yet
had failed to take an active interest in the
the subject, began to be little more
thoughtful and to wonder if they ought not
to bestir themselves before next election
day.
Ministers who had stopped preaching
temperance because the subject was hack
neyed, suddenly found that their services
in that direction were no longer necessary.
A more impressive sermon was being
preached than it was in their power to de-
liver
II had already got to thirdly. where
would it end ?
Some little time elasped before Fourth
ly'' appeared. Silly Jim had been sent
back to his own bedroom, and the clerk
and his wife moved their bed into the
front room. Night after night passed
without their expected visitor, and finally
they became less watchful One night
they slept unusually sound, and the next
morning they were dismayed on being
awakened by a lot of excited voices, to
find a crowd of people in the street gazing
up at what they termed sold Lindells
new sign.
Hastily dressing, and calling Jim, the
clerk was soon in the crowd gazing up
through the soft, gray morning light at
picture of himself selling glass Of foamy
beer to a little child whose head barely
reached to the counter At the other end
of the sign he was pictured as a hangman,
knotting the rope around the neck of
man whose face bore striking resem-
blance to that of the child to whom he had
sold the beer. In the background was a
woman and two weeping children.
The clerk, pale as ghost and trembling,
walked silently into the house. Before
night he had thrown up his situation, en-
gagged rooms elsewhere, and was looking
for place to work.
Through all his life be could see that
picture as plainly as if it were hanging be-
fore his eyes, instead OF having been con-
signed to the flames as soon as Silly Jim
could take it down,
| The story OF the sign-board and the mys-
FERROUS artist spread far and wide. Mr..
Lindell found it difficult to supply his
] clerk S place in consequence of the I'M
pleasant notoriety, and was obliged to
stand behind his counter for several days,
retailing the vile stuff which was to make
him a millionaire and listening to the rude
| jokes of his customers about his ever
changing sign boards. 1t was very humil-
iating, and he breathed deep sigh OF re-
| lief, when, at last, he found another man,
who for gold was willing to sell his own
soul. The rooms over the saloon were
again occupied, but the woman was ner-
vous little body, and was SO overcome
when she saw her baby boy pictured with
rum bottle to his lips, and with little
coffin standing close beside him. and at the
edge of ditch that was loathsome to the
last degree, that doctor had to be called
| in, and he told the husband that the wife
would never live year if she were not got
out of that house.
He, too, embraced more respectable
calling, and once more, Mr.. Lindell tended
his own saloon.
Meanwhile the little village was becom.
ing greatly excited. Such temperance
lectures could not fail to produce a very
decided effect.
The third new clerk had been employed
and, like the others, had left without cere.
mony, when the Eastonites received a sur
prise so great that it amounted almost to .
| shock
The picture on the sign-board represent
ed a court Of justice where the Lindells
| father and son, were on trial for the mur
der of men who HAD been hung as murder
ers. for the women and children who hat
been killed because of liquor, or who hat
been starved to death because Of liquor
and for the numerous other crimes which